Everyone knows Drosselmeier as the mysterious toymaker and godfather to the Stahlbaum children who gifts them with a Nutcracker one Christmas Eve. From his childhood as a foundling in a forest, to his confusing teen and young adult years with different families in Germany, to his old age making toys for Klara, this book tells the story of his...
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Thornby has been trapped on his father's estate for over a year with some sort of magic, so when magician John Blake shows up, Thornby reaches out to him for help. John is stumped by the strange magic but is determined to free Thornby, and things get even more complicated as the men start to fall for each...
It's Christmas Eve, and Clara is shocked when the Nutcracker she received from her Uncle Drosselmeyer comes to life and she finds herself helping him fight a battle against the Mouse King. They escape to his land, Winterdream, where Clara learns she just might be the key to breaking his curse and saving the...
Rory is a 20-year-old psychometric (he can see into an object's past when he touches it) living in 1925 New York, working at an antique shop, which is how he meets Arthur. Arthur and his friends are trying to stop a dangerous relic from falling into the wrong hands, and Rory's powers might be just the thing they need. Even more unexpected for both of them are the feelings they develop for each...
In Persephone, the Greek God Hades gets shot with a love arrow and falls in love. In iZombie Vol. 4, Gwen and friends have to deal with a zombie apocalypse and other supernatural happenings. In Plume, Vesper and her supernatural guardian travel through the Old West on a quest for revenge. Enjoy my mini reviews for these three graphic...
Golgotha has always seemed to attract the strange, and the townspeople can attest to many weird happenings, but what's coming now isn't just weird, it's the end of the world. A darkness lives deep in the earth, in the silver mine, about to be awakened and unleashed, and it'll be up to Sheriff Jon Highfather and his people to stop...
Victor has sworn off alchemy, but the torment of an unkept promise and the allure of a strange box he finds in the ashes of the Dark Library tempt him into new territory---the spirit world. Victor's good intentions quickly turn to dangerous obsession, and Victor, Konrad, Elizabeth, and Henry may be in even more danger with each foray into this other...
Jakub and Cheshire are gangsters in an alternate 1930s. Having just left the Kozlow Gang due to the boss fearing Cheshire's magical abilities, they head to Chicago to start anew, only to get immediately roped into doing a job for a local gang and landing smack dab in the middle of an even bigger...
Victoria may be struggling with matters of the heart, but she has a job to do as a Gardella, and the demons that have found their way to earth through a portal are proving to be a much bigger problem than any vampire. The Venators will have to strike a deal with the one vampire they hate most if they want to succeed, and both Max and Sebastian will have difficult choices to...
Seventeen-year-old James wants adventure, so when his father tries to push him into a life of banking, he stows away on the Jolly Roger and accidentally becomes part of a pirate crew on their trip to Never Land. Between brewing faerie tensions, murderous pirates, near-death experiences, and love, he certainly gets an adventure, but it doesn't turn out to be quite the one he'd hoped...